Improvement in fallers for spinning-mules



JOSEPH SMITH.

lmpr ovement in Fallers for Spinning-Mules No. 114,059. Patented April25,1871.-

ttniirt $iatz5 me time JOSEPH SMITH, OF PRESTON, ENGLAND, ASSIG'NOR TO THOMAS RAWS- THORNE, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 114,059, dated April 25, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN FALLERS FOR SPlNNlNG-MULES The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, Josnrn SMITH, of Preston, England, have invented a new Improvement in Sickles and'vViresGonnected with Mules for Spinning and I do hereby declare the" following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification and represents in- Figure 1, a building and under-failer or sickles in position when building a cop, showing arm F and extra wire E.

Figure 2, another form or modification of arm I General Description.

My invention relates to an improved arrangement of the sickle-wires of under-fallers or sickles of spin hing-mules, the object being to remove the excessive strain from the yarn at the point where it presses on the underaller wire and divide such strain, in order that more weight may be put on and a firmer and better cop built.

This I do by adding the wire in fig. 1 around or over which the yarn passes to the cop L 1 can use, instead of wire, any other shaped bar, or I may use the section of atube, with the upper portion cut away, so as to form two flat surfaces for the yarn to pass over, or add two wires in place of the one at 15, thus distributing the pressure or strain (formerly atone point or wire) over two or more points.

In fig. 1--

A is the under-faller or sickle, showing the wires D and E.

D is the wire in ordinary use.

E is the wire I have shown to illustrate my improvements, fixed to the ordinary under-faller or sickle by a Fig. 2 is simply a modified arm, F, to enable the A minder, if desired, to alter the angle of the yarn by changing the extra wire from one hole to the other.

In the old method the yarn has to pass from the rollers over the wire D, which forms at that point an acute angle, the wire D having a knife-edge effect on the yarn; but, by the addition of the wire E, the angle is altered from an acute to an obtuse, and a very considerable amount of extra weight may be put on, consequently considerably more weight of yarn can be put on the same sized cop.

I claim The nnder-faller or sickle, provided with two or more wires or other surfaces, arranged as herein described.'

Witnesses:

THOMAS SMITH, THoMAs PARKER.

JOSEPH SMITH. 

